                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Wednesday, August 2, 1995              TAG: 9508020518
SECTION: FRONT                    PAGE: A8   EDITION: FINAL 
SERIES: BUILDING THE BOMB
        Part I
        
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CHAIN REACTION THE RACE FOR FISSION

ILLUSTRATION: Graphics by Wm. PITZER

Research by D.W. Welsh

SOURCES: ``The First Chain Reaction,'' by Herbert Anderson; ``Enrico

Fermi: Collected Papers''; ``The Making of the Atomic Bomb'' by

Richard Rhodes

[For complete graphic, please see microfilm]

by CNB